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A Glittering Night Flower: The Use of a Name

In Sister Carrie

Read by Sheila Morton

Theodore Dreiser

Theodore Dreiser (1871–1945) was an American author of the naturalist school, known for dealing with the gritty reality of life. Sister Carr…

Chapter 61

In Middlemarch

Read by Sheila Morton

George Eliot

The book examines the role of education in the lives of the characters and how such education and study has affected the characters. Rosamon…

Adrian Hill on Vaccination Research

In Vaccine Research at Oxford

Read by Adrian Hill and Richard Morton

Various

University of Oxford Podcasts

Fruits of Ranger Service

In Six Years with the Texas Rangers, 1875 to 1881

Read by John

James B. Gillett

James Gillet recounts his adventures with the Texas Rangers 1856-1937. In a very entertaining style he recounts personal stories of wars, …

XXVIII

In Gadsby

Read by John

Ernest Vincent Wright

Fifty-year-old John Gadsby is alarmed by the decline of his hometown, Branton Hills, and rallies the city's young people to form an "Or…

Chapter 1

In The Northern Spy

Read by John

J. Thomas Warren

The Northern Spy, written in the 1800s, is a lively story about a Union soldier who infiltrates a Confederate battalion in order to aid in …

A Prologue—being a dish of village chat

In The House by the Churchyard

Read by John

Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu

Murder, mystery, mayhem, romance and relationships. Our classic who-done-it takes place in olde Dublin, Ireland in the village of Chapelizod…

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